Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLove and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
More Joseph Joubert Quotes
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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